Cache images based on dockerfile contents

[PEZ]

When creating a new repository based on a template and then launching Gitpod from the new repository, the user has to wait for the docker image to be built. This can take quite a while.

What if Gitpod could fingerprint the dockerfile contents used and cache the image based on that? Then the image would just need to be pulled as long as the user does not change the dockerfile.

I am working on a template project for the Exercism.org Clojure track. And the whole story would get so much better without the long wait for building the image.

Here's the template: https://github.com/PEZ/clojure-exercism-template

[svenefftinge]

@csweichel can you share the security concerns you outlined when we discussed this a few weeks ago?

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[shaal]

Was this implemented already?

[gtsiolis]

Re-opening and looping in @csweichel to verify if this is still relevant. 🏓

Thanks @shaal!

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[shaal]

Was this implemented already?